Author: William Thomas ChasePublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This catalog focuses on the casting techniques of archiac bronzes.
Ancient Chinese Bronze Art
Author: William Thomas ChasePublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This catalog focuses on the casting techniques of archiac bronzes.
The Great Bronze Age of China
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992260
Category : Bronze age
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Describes the Chinese Bronze Age, including the development of the Chinese state, writing, religion and architecture.
Early Chinese Bronzes
Author: Albert James KoopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes
Author: Robert W. BagleyPublisher: Cornell East Asia Series
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Max Loehr (1903-1988), the most distinguished historian of Chinese art of his generation, is celebrated above all for a 1953 art historical study of Chinese bronzes that effectively predicted discoveries Chinese archaeologists were about to make. Those discoveries in turn overthrew the theories of Loehr's great rival Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), a Swedish sinologue whose apparently scientific use of classification and statistics had long dominated Western studies of the bronzes. Revisiting a controversy that was ended by archaeology before the issues at stake were fully understood, Robert Bagley shows its methodological implications to be profound. Starting with a close reading of the work of Karlgren, he uses an analogy with biological taxonomy to clarify questions of method and to distinguish between science and the appearance of science. Then, turning to Loehr, he provides the rationale for an art history that is concerned above all with constructing a meaningful history of creative events, one that sees the intentionality of designers and patrons as the driving force behind stylistic change. In a concluding chapter he analyzes the concept of style, arguing that many classic confusions in art historical theorizing arise from a failure to recognize that style is not a property of objects. Addressed not just to ancient China specialists or historians of Chinese art, this book uses Loehr's work on bronzes as a case study for exploring central issues of art history. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with the analysis of visual materials.
Art from Ritual
Author: Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Shanghai Museum
Author: Shanghai bo wu guanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Ancient Chinese Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870994832
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Ancient China : life, myth and art
Author: Edward L. ShaughnessyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780760780558
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Even today the economic powerhouse of modern China takes strength and nourishment from its legacy of antiquity. Ancient China illuminates this venerable heritage with unprecedented scholarship and vividness.
Chinese Bronze Ware
Author: Song LiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521186854
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Chinese Bronze Ware provides an accessible introduction to ancient China's magnificent bronze culture with full colour illustrations.
Ten Thousand Things
Author: Lothar LedderosePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691252882
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts Chinese workers in the third century BC created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century AD, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these examples show, throughout history, Chinese artisans have produced works of art in astonishing quantities, and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. In this book, Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. He reveals how these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Combining invaluable aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations, Ten Thousand Things make a profound statement about Chinese art and society.